Unfiltered black lager.
Toffe, raisin, nut and burnt aroma; bitterish taste with fruit and toffee
aromas; bitter finish with coffe liquorice and chicory. An interesting beer
that bears more than a passing resemblance to a stout.

Pils.
Pepper and margarine aroma; bitterish/sweetish taste with butter aroma;
bitter finish with wood and butter aromas. Way too buttery - it forces the
hops right into the background. Totally unbalanced.

Black lager.
Cherry, malt and burnt aroma; bitter taste with fruit and burnt aromas;
bitter finish with chicory and coffee aromas.
A rather nice schwarzbier with lots of black malt character. Some examplaes
of the style - such as this one - can be intriguingly close to porter.

Pale lager. Seasonal - Sept/Oct.
Spice and flowers aroma; bitterish/seetish taste with butter and pepper
aromas; bitterish finish with butter and grass aromas. Similar to the Dinkelacker
Volksfestbier but not as overwhelmingly buttery.

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Schwaben Bräu Weihnachtsbier

5.5% (12.4º Plato)

Pale lager. Seasonal - Christmas.

Sanwald Hefeweizen

4.9% (11.5º Plato)

Pale unfiltered wheat beer.

Sanwald Kristallweizen

4.9% (11.5º Plato)

Pale filtered wheat beer.

Sanwald Weizen dunkel

4.9% (11.7º Plato)

Dark unfiltered wheat beer.

Sanwald Hefeweizen leicht

2.8% (7.5º Plato)

Pale unfiltered wheat beer.

Cluss Kellerpils

5.0% (11.5º Plato)

Unfiltered pils.

Cluss Export

5.2% (12.2º Plato)

Pale lager.

Cluss Festbier

5.6% (12.6º Plato)

Pale lager.

Part of the Spaten group (now itself owned by Interbrew).

Robert Leicht founded the Bier-Brauerei Robert Leicht in the Vaihinger Gaststätte
"Zum Ochsen" in 1878. Ten years later, Carl Dinkelacker started the Brauerei
Dinkelacker in Tübinger Straße. These are the two breweries which formed the
basis of Dinkelacker - Schwaben Bräu.

Over the years both gobbled up other smaller breweries. There are still four distinct
product ranges which originated at the different constituent breweries. I would
be surprising if they continued to brew 21 beers long term.

Schwaben Bräu and Dinkelacker set up a joint distribution centre in 1994
and formally merged in 1996. The Schwaben Bräu plant in Vaihingen has been
demolished and is being redevelopped as a shopping centre and car park. The historic
brewery tap "Zum Ochsen" did not feature in the developer's plans

Pale unfiltered lager.
Pepper, yeast, margarine and sulphur aroma; neutral taste with yeast aroma;
lemony finish. Bit of hop and farty smell in the aroma, but too much yeast
that overpowers everything. Just because it's unfiltered doesn't mean that
it has to be so easy.